Some experiences after installing/upgrading to F9 Beta

[Casey Dahlin]

Joachim Backes wrote:
> Please let me report my experiences when installing the F9 Beta preview:
>
> 0. The disk naming scheme has been changed: in my F8 box, I have a 
> SATA disk called /dev/sda
>    and an IDE disk called /dev/sdb; in F9, the names have been exchanged.

This is a property of the kernel as of sometime around f8 I believe. 
These names cannot be considered reliable. However you can address your 
disks by UUID instead of name now.

> 1. I copied my F8 (on my SATA disk) from /dev/sdb1 into partition 
> /dev/sdb9, then upgraded F8
>    on /dev/sdb9.
>    But after the upgrade was performed, I saw that F8 on /dev/sdb1 had 
> been upgraded and not that
>    F8 on /dev/sdb9, and all partitions were re-labelled with some UUIDs.

See previous comment for partial explanation

> 2. I copied the install iso to some partition and booted the installer 
> with "askmethod".
>    When prompted, I choosed "install from local harddrive" instead of 
> "local DVD", but the
>    installation still was done DVD based.
> 3. After booting the fresh installed F9, I waited for "firstboot", but 
> the box hung,
>    and firstboot could not be seen (the boot was done into initmode 5).
>    As workaround i booted again in initmode 3, then the firstboot
>    was presented.
>
> Regards
>